I think his reasoning about why not is rather understandable.
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palordrolap@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Frankly, I'm surprised an old-school juggernaut like Zawinski doesn't already have his own mail server. It's not like he lacks the technical ability to set one up.
tux0r@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Zak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He does have his own mail server according to the post. He doesn’t want to store the mail long-term, filter spam, host a web mail client, or support employees setting up native mail clients.
DV8@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You forgot to add that he obviously refuses to hire an actual IT admin to do IT admin stuff.
Zak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Given his background, I’m certain he can do a good job of being his own IT admin if he wants to. He seems to want some of the benefits of that while having Google do the parts he doesn’t like.
Google, on the other hand seems to want to drop features that I think it intended to encourage people to migrate from ISP email accounts to Gmail 20 years ago and now sees as cruft and/or security concerns.
DV8@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I admit I know nothing about him apart from the linked wiki page elsewhere. But nothing I read there seems to indicate he can be a good admin.
What you state he wants to achieve is what ignorant managers sometimes say they want without understanding how silly it is. I was in IT twenty years ago already, while still being green and unbearded, and even then this would have been an extremely bad and dumb idea.